potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

[Joe Biron]

Title: Message

Could someone point a newbie to an explanation of the Debian release universe?  A friend explained it to me as "Woody is the newest... you want Woody".  Well, is Potato then the "stable" and Woody the "testing"?  My \etc\apt\sources.list is

 

#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/non-US stable main contrib non-free

 

# Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US

 

# added for Ximian gnome
deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main

 

# added for woody update
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

 

Now, I'm not just a Debian newbie, I'm sort of a Linux intermediabie, and as I edited sources.list, I had no clue as to what I was doing, but nevertheless, I seem to have the latest versions of Debian (3.0?) and GNOME, after hours of playing with apt-get.  So I'm happy for now, but I need some background.

 

Thanks.